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For Immediate Release – March 19, 2013Media Contact: Alicia Steger 516.572.9634Email: alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleases

NCC Presents Poet & Iraq War Veteran Brian Turner

April 1

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College and the “Literature Live!” program of the NCCCreative Writing Project is honored to present poet and Iraq war veteran Brian Turner, who will read from his poetry on Monday, April 1 at 2:00 p.m. in the College Center Building.

Brian Turner is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, The New York Times’ “Editor’s Choice” selection, and the 2006 Pen Center USA’s “Best in the West” award, among others. Turner served seven years in the U.S. army, which included one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3^rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2^nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999. Turner’s poetry has been published in Poetry Daily and the Georgia Review, among other publications. He was also featured in Voices in Wartime Anthology and Operation Homecoming, a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. Turner, who earned an MFA from the University of Oregon, was selected in 2009 as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows.Brian Turner’s appearance at the College is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled. For more information about this program, contact the Creative Writing Project at 516.572.7197 extension 25613.Ref: 1659.3/19/13/170About Nassau Community CollegeNassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 23,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence. For more information, visit www.ncc.edu.